638. Charity Contributions--Average Dollar Amount and Percent of Household Income, by Age of Respondent and Household Income

[Estimates cover households' contribution
activity (both cash and in-kind) for the year and are based on respondents' replies as to
contribution and volunteer activity of household. For 1998, based on a sample
survey of 2,553 persons 18 years old and over conducted during the spring of the following year and
subject to sampling variability; see source]

B Base too small to meet statistical standards for reliability.
NA Not available.
1 Persons who itemized their deductions on their 1998 federal tax returns.
2 Hispanic persons may be of any race.

Source: Hodgkinson, Virginia, Murray Weitzman, and the Gallup Organization, Inc.,
Giving and Volunteering in the United States: 1992, 1994 and 1996 Editions.
(Copyright and published by INDEPENDENT SECTOR, Washington, DC, fall 1992, 1994, and 1996.) and
Saxon-Harrold, Susan K.E., Murray Weitzman, and the Gallup Organization, Inc.,
Giving and Volunteering in the United States: 1999 Edition.
(Copyright and published by INDEPENDENT SECTOR, Washington, DC, 2000.)